In January-June 2025, Ukraine reduced exports of sunflower oil to 2.407 mln tonnes and revenues to $2.77 bln, down 33.5% and 2.4%, respectively, compared to the same period last year.
According to the statistics released by the State Customs Service, the main buyers of Ukrainian sunflower oil in January-June this year were Spain and Italy, which accounted for 12.88% and 12.18% of exports, respectively, and India with a share of 11.77%. These countries spent $356.945 mln, $337.494 mln and $326.071 mln on the purchase of sunflower oil from Ukraine, respectively.
Exports of rapeseed oil decreased by 3.6 times in this period compared to January-June 2024, to 19.992 mln tonnes, while the revenue was 2.9 times lower and amounted to $58.015 mln.
At the same time, this year Ukraine increased exports of soybean oil by 52% in the first half of the year compared to 287.052 mln tonnes a year ago and doubled the revenue to $295.034 mln.
The main buyers of Ukrainian rapeseed oil were the Netherlands, which accounted for 39.29% of the exported volume, bringing Ukraine $7.750 million, Germany – 21.44% and $4.23 million, Slovakia – 13.13% and $2.591 million, respectively.
Among the most active buyers of Ukrainian soybean oil were Poland – 63.97% of exports worth $188.736 mln, India – 9.02% worth $26.616 mln, and Germany – 4.04% worth $11.925 mln.
In the reporting period, exports of other non-volatile fats and vegetable oils also increased by 1.9 times to 988 thsd tonnes, which is $2.409 mln in monetary terms compared to $2.124 mln a year ago.
At the same time, the import of palm oil to Ukraine in January-June 2025 increased by 2% compared to the first half of 2024 – up to 50.708 thsd tonnes. In monetary terms, the imports amounted to $71.651 mln (+15.2%). Ukraine purchased palm oil from Malaysia – 59.79% of imports of this product, worth $42.839 million, India – 35.7%, worth $25.581 million, and Sweden – 4.17%, worth $2.99 million.
Ukraine’s purchases of olive oil increased by 60.9% to 1.083 million tons, and the cost of purchasing it also increased by 3.5% to $8.277 million. Its main suppliers were Italy (42.55%), Spain (29.62%) and Greece (23.2%). They earned $3.522 million, $2.452 million, and $1.92 million from sales to Ukraine, respectively.
